Day 1
Arrive in Paris
Arrive at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, where you are met and taken to the hotel. The rest of the day is free to settle in. Dinner is included.
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Europe Christmas & New Year Tour – 9 Countries, 12 Nights / 13 Days
Our most complete Europe tour, over Christmas and New Year: 9 countries in 12 nights / 13 days from Paris to Rome, departing 22 December 2026, with t…
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A thoughtfully planned holiday experience.
Our most complete Europe itinerary, timed for the holidays: nine countries in 13 days on a fixed-departure group tour leaving on 22 December 2026.
Begin with three nights in Paris – a guided city tour, the Eiffel Tower top level, Versailles, a Seine cruise, Paris by Night and Disneyland® Paris. Travel through Brussels and Mini-Europe, a Dutch windmill village and Amsterdam, Heidelberg and the Black Forest, then spend three nights in Switzerland with Jungfraujoch, Mt. Titlis, Lucerne and the Lindt Home of Chocolate. Cross Liechtenstein and Austria, welcome the New Year in Venice with a gondola ride, and finish with Florence, Pisa and Rome, including a guided visit to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel.
A professional tour manager travels with the group throughout, you stay in superior 4-star hotels, and lunches and dinners with Jain, vegetarian and non-vegetarian options are included, along with two gala dinners for Christmas and New Year's Eve and treats in every country.
This Best of Europe tour is our most complete Western Europe tour package: nine countries, including tiny Liechtenstein, with three nights in Paris and three in Switzerland, so you never feel rushed. Compare it with our other Europe tour packages.
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Trip highlights
✦ Arrive in Paris
✦ Paris city tour, Eiffel Tower top level, Versailles, Seine cruise and Paris by Night
✦ Full day at Disneyland® Paris
✦ Brussels – Grand Place, Manneken Pis and Mini-Europe
✦ Dutch windmill village and Amsterdam canal cruise
✦ Heidelberg, Black Forest and Rhine Falls
Day-wise plan
Your itinerary, day by day.
Day 2
Paris city tour, Eiffel Tower top level, Versailles, Seine cruise and Paris by Night
A local guide shows you Paris: Place Vendôme, the Opéra Garnier, Musée d'Orsay, Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe, Pont Alexandre III and Les Invalides. Go up to the top level of the Eiffel Tower, then tour the Palace of Versailles. Cruise the River Seine past Notre-Dame and the Louvre, and in the evening see the city's landmarks lit up on a Paris by Night tour.
Access to the Eiffel Tower top level depends on its operating status. Days 2 and 3 may be swapped depending on ticket slots.
Day 3
Full day at Disneyland® Paris
Spend the whole day at Disneyland® Paris. Choose Disneyland® Park, with its fairy-tale lands, rides, shows and parades with Disney characters, or Walt Disney Studios® Park, with stunt shows and movie-set attractions. A packed lunch is provided.
Day 4
Brussels – Grand Place, Manneken Pis and Mini-Europe
Drive to Brussels, capital of Belgium and home of the European Union. See the Grand Place, with its medieval Town Hall, and the Manneken Pis statue, then visit Mini-Europe, where more than 350 of Europe's famous monuments are reproduced in miniature. Continue to your hotel in the Netherlands.
Day 5
Dutch windmill village and Amsterdam canal cruise
Visit a traditional Dutch village near Amsterdam, with working windmills, wooden houses and craft workshops. Then explore Amsterdam on a glass-topped canal cruise past its gabled canal houses and bridges, before driving to your hotel in the Frankfurt area of Germany.
Day 6
Heidelberg, Black Forest and Rhine Falls
Walk through Heidelberg's Old Town and see the Church of the Holy Spirit. Drive into the Black Forest for a cuckoo clock-making demonstration. Cross into Switzerland to see the Rhine Falls, Europe's most powerful waterfall, and continue to your hotel in Central Switzerland.
The boat ride at the Rhine Falls usually pauses over Christmas and New Year, so on this departure you see the falls from the viewing platforms.
Day 7
Interlaken and Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe
Visit Interlaken, set between two lakes, then head to the Grindelwald Terminal. The Eiger Express gondola takes you to Eigergletscher in about 15 minutes, and a cogwheel train continues to Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest railway station at 3,454 m. Walk through the Ice Palace and see the Aletsch Glacier from the Sphinx observation deck.
Day 8
Mt. Titlis, Lucerne and Lindt Home of Chocolate
Ride a series of cable cars, including the revolving Rotair, to the top of Mt. Titlis at 3,020 m, and walk the Titlis Cliff Walk, Europe's highest suspension bridge. Then see Lucerne's Lion Monument and the wooden Chapel Bridge, and finish with a visit to the Lindt Home of Chocolate.
Day 9
Liechtenstein, Swarovski Crystal Worlds and Innsbruck
Drive to Vaduz, capital of the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein, and see it on a guided mini train ride. Continue into Austria to the Swarovski Crystal Worlds at Wattens, then see Innsbruck's Golden Roof and Maria-Theresien-Strasse, framed by the Alps.
Day 10
Venice – private boat to St. Mark's Square and gondola ride
Drive to Venice and take a private boat to St. Mark's Square. See St. Mark's Basilica, the Bell Tower, the Clock Tower and the Bridge of Sighs, then glide through the canals on a classic Venetian gondola ride. Continue to your hotel in the Padova / Ferrara area.
Day 11
Florence guided walking tour and Leaning Tower of Pisa
With an English-speaking local guide, walk through Florence: the Duomo, the Campanile, the Baptistery with its Gates of Paradise, Piazza della Signoria with the Palazzo Vecchio, and the Ponte Vecchio over the River Arno. Then continue to Pisa to see the Leaning Tower in the Square of Miracles.
Day 12
Rome and Vatican City – Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica
Drive to Rome. In Vatican City, take a guided visit to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, home of Michelangelo's Last Judgement, and see St. Peter's Basilica. Continue on an orientation tour past the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Victor Emmanuel Monument, and toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
Shorts and sleeveless tops are not allowed in the Vatican. Entry to the Vatican Museums can involve a queue of about 1½ hours. If tickets are not available, the group visits the Colosseum with entry instead.
Day 13
Departure from Rome
After breakfast, check out and transfer to Rome Fiumicino airport for your flight home.
Hotel confirmation
Hotel names will be provided after booking, subject to availability and confirmation. We do not hold hotel confirmations before booking.
Inclusions
Accommodation
12 nights in superior 4-star hotels:
- 3 nights Paris – B&B / Millennium CDG or similar
- 1 night Netherlands – Amrath / Van der Valk or similar
- 1 night Germany (Frankfurt area) – Intercity / Elaya or similar
- 3 nights Central Switzerland – La Maison / Radisson or similar
- 1 night Innsbruck / Seefeld – Alpenkönig / Hocheder or similar
- 1 night Padova / Ferrara – Four Points by Sheraton / Blue Dream or similar
- 1 night Tuscany – Park / Le Fonti or similar
- 1 night Rome – SHG / Selene / Simon or similar
Meals
- Daily continental buffet breakfast
- 11 lunches (Indian / local, Jain / vegetarian / non-vegetarian), packed on the Disneyland day
- 12 dinners (Indian / local, Jain / vegetarian / non-vegetarian)
- 500 ml mineral water bottle per person daily
Sightseeing and entrances
- Guided Paris city tour
- Eiffel Tower top (3rd) level
- Guided tour of Versailles Palace
- River Seine cruise
- Paris by Night tour
- Full day at Disneyland® Paris
- Brussels Grand Place and Manneken Pis
- Mini-Europe, Brussels
- Traditional Dutch windmill village
- Amsterdam glass-top canal cruise
- Heidelberg Old Town
- Black Forest cuckoo clock demonstration
- Rhine Falls
- Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe and Interlaken
- Mt. Titlis with the Rotair revolving cable car and Cliff Walk
- Lucerne orientation tour
- Lindt Home of Chocolate, Zurich
- Vaduz, Liechtenstein, with mini train ride
- Swarovski Crystal Worlds, Wattens
- Innsbruck – Golden Roof and Maria-Theresien-Strasse
- Venice – private boat to St. Mark's Square and gondola ride
- Guided walking tour of Florence
- Leaning Tower of Pisa photo stop
- Guided Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel (or Colosseum entry)
- St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
- Rome orientation tour and Trevi Fountain
Services
- Services of a professional tour manager throughout the tour
- Air-conditioned coach for all transfers and sightseeing
- Tips for coach drivers
- Free group airport transfer on arrival at Paris (CDG) for flights landing between 8 am and 2 pm, and on departure to Rome (FCO) with drop by 11 am (see booking terms)
- Christmas and new year's eve gala dinners included
- Little extras: a glass of champagne in France, a souvenir in Holland, a waffle in Belgium, Black Forest cake in Germany, Swiss chocolate ice cream, pizza, pasta and gelato in Italy, a glass of Italian wine, and masala tea in select cities
Exclusions
- Flights to Paris and back from Rome (we can quote these separately)
- Schengen visa fee, passport and overseas travel insurance
- 5% GST and 2% TCS on the tour cost (TCS is credited to your PAN and can be claimed in your income tax return)
- Private airport transfers for flights outside the group transfer timings
- Porterage, laundry, alcohol, mini-bar, phone calls and other personal expenses
- Meals other than those listed; menus are pre-set
- Sightseeing, entrance fees or guides not mentioned in the itinerary
- Any increase in local taxes, entrance fees or fuel costs, and surcharges on some departure dates
- Anything not listed under inclusions
Important Terms
Starts: Paris (CDG) Ends: Rome (FCO)
Booking and payment
- At booking: ₹30,000 per person, non-refundable, with clear copies of the passport and PAN card of every traveller.
- 45 days before departure: payment up to 50% of the total tour cost.
- 30 days before departure: the full balance.
- Bookings made within 30 days of departure are paid in full at the time of booking.
Price and taxes
- Prices are per person on twin sharing. Children below 12 years on the whole tour pay child rates; a third person in a triple room usually gets a rollaway bed in a standard-size room.
- The tour cost is set in euros. The final rupee amount is fixed at the exchange rate on the date of your final payment.
- Indian passport holders paying in rupees pay 5% GST and 2% TCS on the tour cost. Foreign passport holders and NRIs, please ask us, as different tax rules apply.
Airport transfers
- Free group transfers run only for flights landing at Paris (CDG) between 8 am and 2 pm. You may wait up to 2–3 hours in the arrival hall for other guests.
- On the last day the coach drops the group at Rome (FCO) by 11 am, which can be up to 6 hours before your flight.
- If these timings don't suit your flights, we can book a private transfer at extra cost. No refund is given for an unused group transfer.
On tour
- Passports must be valid for at least 6 months after your return date, with two blank pages.
- Please carry one check-in bag and one hand bag per person; luggage space on the coach is limited.
- The order of days may change, or the tour may run in reverse, on some dates. All listed sightseeing is still covered unless an attraction is closed, in which case an alternative is arranged.
- If the Eiffel Tower queue is very long, the group may visit Montparnasse Tower for the city view instead.
- On some dates your group may join another group, and a local representative may assist instead of the tour manager for the first part of the tour.
- Tours run subject to government rules. Changes caused by weather, strikes or other events beyond our control, and any extra costs from them, are payable by the traveller.
Cancellation charges
| When you cancel | Cancellation charge |
|---|---|
| From booking until 36 days before departure | ₹30,000 per person (the booking amount) |
| 35 to 29 days before departure | ₹60,000 per person |
| 28 to 15 days before departure | 50% of the tour cost |
| 14 to 8 days before departure | 75% of the tour cost |
| 7 days or less before departure, or no-show | 100% of the tour cost |
- Visa refusal: if your visa is refused and you cancel more than 45 days before departure, the charge is ₹12,000 per person instead of the above, and the rest of your payment is refunded. Please send us the refusal letter. Within 45 days of departure the table above applies.
- Please send cancellations in writing by email or WhatsApp. The date we receive it decides the charge.
- No refund is given for unused services, missed sightseeing or leaving the tour early.
- Refunds are paid to the account the payment came from, within 30 days of cancellation. GST and TCS are adjusted as per Government of India rules.
Christmas and New Year on this tour
The group is in Paris for Christmas Eve, sees Brussels' Grand Place on Christmas Day, and travels through the snow-covered Alps in the days after. The tour reaches Venice on 31 December, with a gondola ride before the New Year's Eve gala dinner, and starts 2027 in Florence and Rome. Two gala dinners, for Christmas and New Year's Eve, are included.
Some attractions keep holiday hours around Christmas and 1 January, so the order of days may be adjusted. Everything listed is still covered.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does this tour depart?
It departs on 22 December 2026 and returns on 3 January 2027 (12 nights / 13 days). The tour starts at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and ends at Rome Fiumicino airport.
Which countries does this tour cover?
France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy and Vatican City.
Are gala dinners included?
Yes. Two gala dinners are included, for Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Are flights included?
No, this is a land package starting in Paris and ending in Rome. Our team can quote flights from Delhi or your city separately.
Is Jain or vegetarian food available?
Yes. Lunches and dinners include Jain, vegetarian and non-vegetarian options, and breakfast is a continental buffet at the hotel.
Is the Vatican Museum visit guaranteed?
A guided visit to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel is included. If tickets are not available, the tour manager arranges entry to the Colosseum instead and tells you in advance.
What is the weather like in late December?
Expect cold, short days. Paris and Amsterdam are usually around 2–8°C, Swiss towns around freezing, and the mountain tops at Jungfraujoch and Titlis well below zero with snow. Pack thermals, a warm coat, gloves, a cap and shoes with good grip. Venice, Florence and Rome are milder, usually around 5–13°C.
Is 13 days a good length for a first Europe trip?
Yes, if you want to see a lot in one holiday. You cover nine countries with full days in Paris and Switzerland, and the pace stays comfortable.
How much does a 2-week Europe tour cost from India?
It depends on the departure and number of travellers; flights are extra. Send us an enquiry for an exact quote, and see our Europe trip cost guide.
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